Amos Sawyer

Amos Sawyer, ( born 1945 ) was President of Liberia from 1990 to 1994.

Early years

Sawyer suggested an academic career and was from 1980 to 1984 Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Liberia. During this time he was Chairman of the Constitutional Commission, which met after the assassination of President William Tolbert.

President

Sawyer took over after the assassination of President Samuel Doe on 22 November 1990 the presidency of the transitional government ( Gouvernment of National Unity ), which had to take their seat in Ghana first. The West African Economic Community ECOWAS had led to the establishment of the transitional government through the use of the multinational peacekeeping force, ECOMOG. Sawyer's term of office ended on 7 March 1994, after he had originally hoped to have to act in the office for only six months.

The civil war continued unabated during his reign on. The rebel leader Charles Taylor, "Prince" Yormie Johnson and several others were fighting for power in the country, with Taylor prevailed later. Sawyer is one of the Liberian People's Party to which won the House of Representatives in elections on their quality, opinions diverge on 19 July 1997 1.61 % of the votes in the presidential election and one of the 64 seats. 75 % of the votes went to Taylor, which was believed that it would otherwise have continued to fight.

Academic

Since his studies at Northwestern University in Illinois, he has a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science. He currently teaches political theory and analysis at the University of Indiana in Bloomington. Sawyer was on several occasions working for international organizations, as for the United Nations and 2001 on behalf of the Organization of African Unity as Chairman of the Supervisory Commission on the elections in Zimbabwe.

Since the 1980s, he had written several books on Liberian politics, in the summer of 2005 he released his latest book.

Works

  • Kristin Dunst & Amos Sawyer: Beyond Plunder: Toward Democratic governance in Liberia. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005, ISBN 1-58826-384-3

Joseph Jenkins Roberts | Stephen Allen Benson | Daniel Bashiel Warner | James Spriggs Payne | Edward J. Roye | Skivring James Smith | Joseph Jenkins Roberts | James Spriggs Payne | Anthony W. Gardiner | Alfred F. Russell | Hilary RW Johnson | Joseph James Cheeseman | William D. Coleman | Garretson W. Gibson | Arthur Barclay | Daniel E. Howard | Charles DB King | Edwin Barclay | William S. Tubman | William R. Tolbert Jr. | Samuel K. Doe | Amos Sawyer | Ruth Perry | Charles Taylor | Moses Blah | Gyude Bryant | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  • President ( Liberia)
  • Politicians ( 20th century)
  • Politicians (Liberia)
  • Liberian
  • Born in 1945
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